Pat Moran wins Artio Award for casting on HBO's 'Game Change'

Baltimore's Pat Moran wins an Artio Award for her work on HBO's "Game Change." She had already earned an Emmy for her work on the film about the 2008 presidential election.

Baltimore's Pat Moran wins an Artio Award for her work on HBO's "Game Change." She had already earned an Emmy for her work on the film about the 2008 presidential election. (Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun photo)

The "Game Change" award marks the third time Moran has been honored by her peers. She also won Artios for casting on "The Wire" series in 2003 and the made-for-TV movie "Something the Lord Made" in 2004. Both were also HBO productions.

Moran also won an Emmy in September for her work on "Game Change."

"I guess when it rains it pours," the veteran producer and casting director said Wednesday, stressing that she meant it in a good way.

Moran was in Baltimore worried about getting her home, which was built in 1842, through Hurricane Sandy and did not attend the awards dinner. She found out from one of her colleagues in a morning-after phone call.

"Honest, I was so busy with the storm, I wasn't thinking about the awards," she said.

"But 'Game Change' was like a perfect storm in casting all the way through. Of course, it doesn't hurt when you start with Julianne [Moore], Woody [Harrelson] and Ed [Harris]," she added referring to the actors who played three of the four lead roles in the docudrama about the GOP campaign of John McCain and Sarah Palin.

HBO's made-for-TV movie about the 2008 election was filmed in Maryland. It stars Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, Ed Harris as John McCain and Woody Harrelson as Steve Schmidt. Get up-to-date information on "Game Change" here.

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